Training Log Archive: Mess EngineerIn the 28 days ending Feb 28, 2018:
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Wednesday Feb 28, 2018 #
5 PM
Gym Sydney - Class 'Abs' 30:00 [3]
6 PM
Gym Sydney - Class 'The HIIT' 30:00 [3]
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018 #
5 PM
Gym Sydney - Class Weights 1:00:00 [3]
6 PM
Gym Sydney - Class 'CX Worx' 30:00 [3]
Same instructor and same routine as yesterday but this didn’t make it any physically or mentally easier!
Monday Feb 26, 2018 #
5 PM
Gym Sydney - Class 'Abs' 30:00 [3]
6 PM
Gym Sydney - Class 'The HIIT' 30:00 [3]
Gym Sydney - Class Weights 1:00:00 [3]
Monday nights is jam packed.
This gym doesn’t allow any pack up time with one class finishing at 6:30 and the other immediately starting (unlike Balance who scheduled at least 5 minutes changeover).
So I bailed a few minutes early from HIIT as soon as people started vacating the other studio but still almost every mat and step got snapped up and even then I struggled to find a few square metres of vacant floor to stake my claim!
This gym doesn’t allow any pack up time with one class finishing at 6:30 and the other immediately starting (unlike Balance who scheduled at least 5 minutes changeover).
So I bailed a few minutes early from HIIT as soon as people started vacating the other studio but still almost every mat and step got snapped up and even then I struggled to find a few square metres of vacant floor to stake my claim!
7 PM
Gym Sydney - Class 'CX Worx' 30:00 [3]
OMG just when you think it can’t get any harder.
Swapping out yoga to weights class made me even more exhausted but was more enjoyable.
Swapping out yoga to weights class made me even more exhausted but was more enjoyable.
Sunday Feb 25, 2018 #
9 AM
Gym Sydney - Class Weights 30:00 [3]
Half class on Sundays
10 AM
Gym Sydney - Class 'CX Worx' 30:00 [3]
Gym Sydney - Class 'Body Balance' 1:00:00 [3]
2nd time I have tried this class.
Doing so as I was trying a private yoga class that had a lot less emphasis on technical moves and much more focus on relaxation.
So unfortunately this offering is not an ideal replacement.
Will swap it out instead for Body Pump on Monday’s.
Doing so as I was trying a private yoga class that had a lot less emphasis on technical moves and much more focus on relaxation.
So unfortunately this offering is not an ideal replacement.
Will swap it out instead for Body Pump on Monday’s.
11 AM
Note
Review of first week of gym
4 Body Pump this will become 5
4 CX Worx
2 Abs
2 The HIIT
2 Body Balance this will drop to probably zero
for 9 1/2 hrs plus all the unlogged free weights and machines doing before classes.
CX Worx, Abs and The HIIT all flogging me so hoping they will have the desired effect on my physique.
Plus just Body Pump a few times a week used to maintain the gains I had made.
Can’t really fit in any more classes I am interested in as working 10-11 hrs each day starting 6 am and finishing around 4:30 pm. Would either have to start later or finish earlier neither of which is currently viable. Also need to resume Street-O which fell over after Christmas which would wipe out Wednesday classes.
Any Saturday that KC not here the implied expectation is I will work which screws parkrun and most gym options.
Next focus once gym routine established is food.
4 Body Pump this will become 5
4 CX Worx
2 Abs
2 The HIIT
2 Body Balance this will drop to probably zero
for 9 1/2 hrs plus all the unlogged free weights and machines doing before classes.
CX Worx, Abs and The HIIT all flogging me so hoping they will have the desired effect on my physique.
Plus just Body Pump a few times a week used to maintain the gains I had made.
Can’t really fit in any more classes I am interested in as working 10-11 hrs each day starting 6 am and finishing around 4:30 pm. Would either have to start later or finish earlier neither of which is currently viable. Also need to resume Street-O which fell over after Christmas which would wipe out Wednesday classes.
Any Saturday that KC not here the implied expectation is I will work which screws parkrun and most gym options.
Next focus once gym routine established is food.
Saturday Feb 24, 2018 #
5 AM
Note
(rest day)
No parkrun today as working (unpaid) all day as defacto Shift Supervisor :-(
Friday Feb 23, 2018 #
6 PM
Gym Sydney - Class Weights 1:00:00 [3]
7 PM
Gym Sydney - Class 'CX Worx' 30:00 [3]
Thursday Feb 22, 2018 #
6 PM
Gym Sydney - Class Weights 1:00:00 [3]
Less variety of class options I am interested in on Thursday nights
Wednesday Feb 21, 2018 #
5 PM
Gym Sydney - Class 'Abs' 30:00 [3]
OMG when you are already painfully struggling in the warmup you know you are in trouble
6 PM
Gym Sydney - Class 'The HIIT' 30:00 [3]
OMG OMG totally different to the other day and I had to stop during some reps as pushing my low cardio level to current limit.
Gave up the idea of attending two more classes tonight and went home to do the dishes and prepare for a work phone call at 8:30 pm
Gave up the idea of attending two more classes tonight and went home to do the dishes and prepare for a work phone call at 8:30 pm
Tuesday Feb 20, 2018 #
5 PM
Gym Sydney - Class Weights 1:00:00 [3]
6 PM
Gym Sydney - Class 'CX Worx' 30:00 [3]
“Gosh” this class is amazingly exhausting!
Monday Feb 19, 2018 #
4 PM
Note
Finally joined a Sydney gym .... for 6 months .... at a cost of over 3 times what it used to cost at Wests Mayfield for 12 months!
Will try out of range of different classes to experiment with what I like .... or what works on physique well ..... to build up some form of weekly routine to combat boredom, loneliness and restore my body to its former self.
Will try out of range of different classes to experiment with what I like .... or what works on physique well ..... to build up some form of weekly routine to combat boredom, loneliness and restore my body to its former self.
5 PM
Gym Sydney - Class 'Abs' 30:00 [3]
6 PM
Gym Sydney - Class 'The HIIT' 30:00 [3]
Gym Sydney - Class 'Body Balance' 1:00:00 [3]
Saturday Feb 17, 2018 #
8 AM
Run 5 km NSW - Official Panania 29:44 [3] 5.0 km (5:57 / km)
72nd parkrun at 43rd location. Now completed 13 runs around the Sydney region with at least 9 still to go excluding the Woolongong region.
I was speaking to the man, who eventually was today’s winner, as he was wearing a t shirt with 240 km on it. He said he had run a 300 km loop run around Sydney (seemingly as a training activity) and had pre booked accommodation at setpoints around the course and ate from local supermarkets.
Running out of options closer to home. Next choice likely to be tinytoes suggestion of Cooks Hill. Need to do Dolls Point and Kamay to expand my Alphabet Club diversity!
I was speaking to the man, who eventually was today’s winner, as he was wearing a t shirt with 240 km on it. He said he had run a 300 km loop run around Sydney (seemingly as a training activity) and had pre booked accommodation at setpoints around the course and ate from local supermarkets.
Running out of options closer to home. Next choice likely to be tinytoes suggestion of Cooks Hill. Need to do Dolls Point and Kamay to expand my Alphabet Club diversity!
9 AM
Aqua Zumba - Sydney 1:00:00 [1]
Quickly got my Panania token scanned to drive 47 minutes to Mt Druitt to attend a 9:30 class with KC and her instructor friends. Something totally different for me and you couldn’t see how uncoordinated I was under the water!
Friday Feb 16, 2018 #
5 PM
Gym Sydney - Class Weights 1:00:00 [3]
2nd Body Pump Class.
This time upped selected weights to try and set my new standard set point.
Legs on machines before and stair climber after.
This time upped selected weights to try and set my new standard set point.
Legs on machines before and stair climber after.
Thursday Feb 15, 2018 #
10 AM
Gym Sydney - Class Weights 1:00:00 [3]
First Body Pump class in over 13 months.
Have been doing free weights and body weight exercises unlogged for the last 5 weeks trying to rebuild my prior physique (pre Australia departure) so it wasn’t as big a shock to the system as it otherwise would have been. I have restored a reasonable amount of muscle in a short time!
Gyms in Sydney are RIDICULOUSLY expensive and I haven’t joined one in 6 months so have undertaken a 3 day trial of the best priced / optioned one halfway between work and home. If I sign up it will be at a higher rate for 6 months rather than a full year as my motivation may not last or I may look for another townhouse at end of this lease to resolve various issues.
Have been doing free weights and body weight exercises unlogged for the last 5 weeks trying to rebuild my prior physique (pre Australia departure) so it wasn’t as big a shock to the system as it otherwise would have been. I have restored a reasonable amount of muscle in a short time!
Gyms in Sydney are RIDICULOUSLY expensive and I haven’t joined one in 6 months so have undertaken a 3 day trial of the best priced / optioned one halfway between work and home. If I sign up it will be at a higher rate for 6 months rather than a full year as my motivation may not last or I may look for another townhouse at end of this lease to resolve various issues.
Saturday Feb 10, 2018 #
Run 5 km NSW - Official San Remo 29:58 [3] 5.0 km (6:00 / km)
71st parkrun at 42nd location.
Restoring my status of completing everything near Newcastle. Missed the first event two weeks ago due to limited accomodation availability Instead electing to go to Sydney Wet n Wild and indoor skydiving at Penrith.
Booked hotel at Budgewoi, 6 minute drive from the start, and drove up Friday night.
One of the more scenic parkruns of recent times following the water with bridges, trees and chirps of parrots and galahs.
287 competitors so start was chaotic with lots of challenging overtaking on the grass to the left for the first 500 m.
Afterwards drove to Tuggerah to go to the Treetops Adventure Park to go on their two Crazy Rider experiences - almost 1 km and 5 minutes long with drops and cork screws galore.
Stopped at nearby chocolate and cheese factories before heading on to Cessnock for another night away from Sydney.
Restoring my status of completing everything near Newcastle. Missed the first event two weeks ago due to limited accomodation availability Instead electing to go to Sydney Wet n Wild and indoor skydiving at Penrith.
Booked hotel at Budgewoi, 6 minute drive from the start, and drove up Friday night.
One of the more scenic parkruns of recent times following the water with bridges, trees and chirps of parrots and galahs.
287 competitors so start was chaotic with lots of challenging overtaking on the grass to the left for the first 500 m.
Afterwards drove to Tuggerah to go to the Treetops Adventure Park to go on their two Crazy Rider experiences - almost 1 km and 5 minutes long with drops and cork screws galore.
Stopped at nearby chocolate and cheese factories before heading on to Cessnock for another night away from Sydney.
Saturday Feb 3, 2018 #
8 AM
Run 5 km NSW - Official Greenway 29:54 [3] 5.0 km (5:59 / km)
Inaugural Parkrun so there were 321 runners.
Nothing set this course or location as very different from any other.
70th parkrun, 41st location and 12th parkrun in the Sydney region.
Rain prior to the start soaked everyone leaving puddles and spongy grass along the course.
Pushed hard and managed to get under 30 minutes.
Aim to get back under 27 minutes in the next 6 months.
Nothing set this course or location as very different from any other.
70th parkrun, 41st location and 12th parkrun in the Sydney region.
Rain prior to the start soaked everyone leaving puddles and spongy grass along the course.
Pushed hard and managed to get under 30 minutes.
Aim to get back under 27 minutes in the next 6 months.
9 AM
Note
Left car at parkrun and caught bus remaining 6 km into Sydney. Entire day walking around Australian Museum prior to catching bus back.